Jujutsu Kaisen: I have everything I need now!

The sound of the new moon echoed in this pitch-black world.

This world, entirely composed of shadows, was devoid of any warmth. The ground beneath their feet was hard and cold, and the air was filled with an indescribable smell of dust.

Mayi gripped the "Black Queen" tightly in her hand, warily glancing around. She discovered that since stepping onto this land, mobilizing the magical power within her body had become exceptionally difficult.

"My magical power... is being suppressed."

Yuujin Itadori clenched his fist tightly. The blue light of his cursed power flickered only at his fingertips before extinguishing like a candle in the wind.

Fukuro Megumi knelt on one knee, panting heavily.

His situation was the worst. As the inheritor of ten shadow spells, the origin of his spells was the same as that of this world. In this pure shadow realm, the high concentration of shadow energy that was everywhere was frantically pouring into his body, trying to completely assimilate his soul.

"Stay alert, in the darkness."

Itachi pressed down hard on Fushiguro Megumi's shoulder to prevent him from falling.

"Oh my, that's so touching."

Suddenly, a mocking and sarcastic voice came from the distant black sky.

As the sound rang out, the space in front of them began to distort violently. Above the magnificent black throne that pierced the clouds, two figures slowly emerged.

One of the figures wore a loose-fitting five-striped robe, with a conspicuous stitch on his forehead. His face wore a nauseating, self-assured smile that suggested he had everything under control.

Lu Suo.

Beside Lu Suo was a colossal, dark shadow that blotted out the sky. The shadow had no specific shape; it was like the dark purple sky itself. Countless scarlet eyes flickered within the shadow, radiating a terrifying pressure that surpassed all living beings.

King of Shadows.

"Lu Suo!"

Yuji Itadori suddenly raised his head, his eyes instantly turning bloodshot with anger, and he gritted his teeth.

"Don't waste your energy." Lu Su looked down at them, his eyes filled with pity and mockery. "In this world, the rules have been completely rewritten. Your so-called magical power is useless here."

Lu Su spread his hands out, as if displaying his masterpiece.

"Your arrival here is truly beyond my expectations. I thought Gojo Satoru would rush in regardless of the consequences. I didn't expect him to choose to stay outside and hold off those rabble, while letting you brats come in to die."

"However, it doesn't matter anymore. The gates to the Land of Shadows have been fully opened, and the fusion of the mortal world and the shadow dimension is only a matter of time. Once I have completely taken control of this power, even Gojo Satoru will have no choice but to submit to the new laws."

Ryosaku's gaze swept over Itadori and Mayi, finally settling on Fushiguro Megumi, who was struggling in pain.

"The perfect container came to me by itself, which saved me a lot of trouble."

Finally, Lu Suo's gaze shifted to December 1st. His usually squinting eyes opened slightly.

"As for you... that 'ghost' who's always been following the young lady from the Zen family." A cold smile curled at the corner of Lu Suo's lips. "I know you, and I've observed you. You're an anomaly with no past, no magical power, and not even recognized by the laws of the world. You've interfered with reality through some unknown means, which has indeed caused me a little trouble."

"But this is the Shadow Realm. An absolute domain that even the laws of the mortal world cannot penetrate. Do you think your pathetic illusions will work here?"

As soon as Lu Suo finished speaking, the enormous black shadow beside him let out a roar that shook the entire dimension.

"roar--!"

With that roar, the vast black earth beneath their feet began to tremble violently.

From those palaces built of bones and black stones, from the dried-up blood-red rift valleys, countless dark figures soared into the sky.

That was an army of hundreds of thousands of shadows!

Among them were not only ordinary shadow soldiers, but also enormous shadow beasts, and even more than a dozen elite commanders exuding an aura no less powerful than the three generals from before. They surged in from all directions like a black tsunami, completely surrounding the four people on the first day of the twelfth month.

"Feel despair, you brats." Luso sneered as he looked down. "Be swallowed by endless darkness in this world without magical power."

Faced with this terrifying array that could instantly break anyone, Yuuji Itadori gritted his teeth and assumed a fighting stance. Mai held the "Black Queen" horizontally in front of her chest; even with her cursed power suppressed, she would absolutely not sit idly by and wait to die.

However, the one standing at the very front of them, December 1st, suddenly burst into laughter.

It started with soft chuckles, then grew louder and louder, and finally turned into unrestrained, maniacal laughter.

His laughter sounded extremely abrupt in this deathly silent world, even drowning out the roars of the shadowy monsters around him.

"What are you laughing at?" Lu Suo's smile faded, and his brows furrowed slightly.

As an ancient monster who had lived for thousands of years, he instinctively felt a sense of unease from the man's laughter.

Upon hearing this, the laughter ceased on the first day of the twelfth month.

He slowly raised his head, and his eyes no longer held their usual nonchalance, but instead showed a kind of "extreme excitement".

"Lu Suo, Lu Suo, you've been scheming for so long, calculating every cause and effect so clearly." December 1st stretched out his hand and twisted his neck.

"However, you made a fatal mistake."

On the first day of December, he felt this powerful body, feeling the power within him that was no longer bound by anything.

"You think the laws of this world are my shield?"

"wrong."

On the first day of December, he suddenly opened his arms wide, his voice booming like thunder throughout the Shadowlands.

"The laws of this world have always been the shackles that suppress me!"

"Here, you severed the rules of magical power in this world, thinking you were stripping me of my power. But you have no idea that you've actually helped me break the last shackle!"

December's new moon's eyes were instantly filled with blinding golden light, and an ancient and sacred magical fluctuation, completely different from curse power, swept wildly in all directions from him.

He felt the surging power within him and roared wildly:

"I have everything I need now!"

He simply raised his right hand, palm up.

"The free chicken makes me fly to the moon."

"[Chicken] Talisman, Full Power Unleashed!"

Om-!

After losing the suppression of the world's laws, the "psychic power" represented by the [Chicken] talisman displayed its terrifying, godlike power.

"Boom!"

The hundreds of thousands of shadowy figures, rushing in like a tsunami, came to an abrupt halt.

The next second, whether it was ordinary shadow soldiers, shadow behemoths weighing hundreds of tons, or even the palaces made of bones and the hard black rock layers on the ground, all of them broke free from gravity and floated uncontrollably into the sky.

"What...what is this?!"

Lu Suo stood on the throne, looking down at the 100,000-strong army that seemed to rise into the air as if weightless, and for the first time, an incredulous look of horror appeared in his eyes.

"What kind of power is this?!"

Not only Ryosaku, but also Mai, Itadori, and Fushiguro Megumi were stunned.

They stood still, the ground beneath their feet intact, while the entire land within a ten-kilometer radius around them, along with all the monsters on it, was forcibly ripped from the earth by an invisible force and lifted hundreds of meters into the air, forming a massive, sky-covering anti-gravity sphere composed of countless debris and monsters.

As the new moon slowly rose into the air, his body, without any movement, was lifted by his mental power and level with the giant sphere.